{"id":2790,"date":"2018-07-30T14:38:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T18:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2018-07-30T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T18:38:50","slug":"groups-pushing-forced-diversity-for-nh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2018\/07\/30\/groups-pushing-forced-diversity-for-nh\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups Pushing Forced Diversity for NH?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the outsider NGOs that are working to force towns to install low-income housing, according to the NY Times, there are groups within NH who have taken up the task of solving NH&#8217;s &#8220;lack of diversity&#8221; which is viewed as a &#8220;problem&#8221;. (see NY Times article below)<\/p>\n<p>It is true that forces that shouldn&#8217;t matter have shown their hand in the recent survey sent to Bedford residents in the form of the 5th and 6th questions which ask: <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;5: Do you find it easy to stay engaged in the Bedford community and to maintain an active social life?&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;6: In your opinion, are there steps the Town or non-profit sector could take to promote a better-connected, more socially engaged community? Please explain.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is true that the United Nations wants to be in charge of your &#8220;very happiness&#8221; (quote from past head of that NGO) and thinks that forcing diversity through zoning regulations via your Master Plan is the way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>As far as we know, no one is &#8220;asking&#8221; how to diversify NH other than the natural way. People are free to move here if they wish. But it&#8217;s not the government&#8217;s job to socially engineer it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NYTimes.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times Article &#8211; New Hampshire, 94 Percent White, Asks: How Do You Diversify a Whole State?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the outsider NGOs that are working to force towns to install low-income housing, according to the NY Times, there are groups within NH who have taken up the task of solving NH&#8217;s &#8220;lack of diversity&#8221; which is viewed as a &#8220;problem&#8221;. (see NY Times article below) It is true that forces that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,23,29,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-international","category-local","category-misc","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}